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Chocky Ar Lá

  • 07-01-2016 9:29pm
    #1
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭


    So the 1916 bandwagon has kicked off, I saw this last night at the local shop.. I have no idea who makes them, I might pick up a bar on the way home tonight. I wonder what the martyrs would have thought?!


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  • #2
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,506 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Think they were selling them in heatons a good few months ago too.

    I'm sure our founding fathers would approve of proclamation based confectionary. Chocolate was quite rare back then!


  • #3
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    So the 1916 bandwagon has kicked off, I saw this last night at the local shop.. I have no idea who makes them, I might pick up a bar on the way home tonight. I wonder what the martyrs would have thought?!

    Sure didn't they make a bee-line for Jacobs' biscuit factory and Boland's Mill, I think they would be proud!


  • #4
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Rowntree Mackintosh of York are making them


  • #5
    Andre 3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭Andre 3000


    As long as they don't cost an arm and a leg like those Hope Chocolate Bars.


  • #6
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    Can't find Tayto bars anymore. They were delicious and I don't care what anyone says!!! :(


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  • #7
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Fukuyama wrote: »
    Can't find Tayto bars anymore. They were delicious and I don't care what anyone says!!! :(

    They were so bad the last batch was sealed in concrete and dumped in the Irish Sea


  • #8
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Was it for this the wild geese spread
    The grey wing upon every tide;
    For this that all that blood was shed,
    For this Edward Fitzgerald died,
    And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,
    All that delirium of the brave?
    Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
    It's with O'Leary in the grave.

    :D


  • #9
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,506 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Maybe they'll do an Easter rising egg too.


  • #10
    Championship Vinyl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭Championship Vinyl


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Maybe they'll do an Easter rising egg too.

    I'm sure Michael Collins' head in the shape of an egg will go down well. Especially with tea.


  • #11
    Lights On
    Registered Users Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭Lights On


    Fukuyama wrote: »
    Can't find Tayto bars anymore. They were delicious and I don't care what anyone says!!! :(

    I never thought I'd eat a snack food that tasted as bad as those Builders Breakfast Walkers that tasted like stale eggs. I thought that, until I ate one of those Tayto bars!!


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  • #12
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    €2.99 a bar??? Pass.


  • #13
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Rowntree Mackintosh of York are making them


    Joe Duffy would have been all over this, decrying it as a national scandal...if, that is, he hadn't had his own 1916 book published by a German publisher :D


  • #14
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,544 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    19 Twix-teen

    Chocolately, rebellion pun :D


  • #15
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Rowntree Mackintosh of York are making them





    Now if the owners of that place are executed they will sell millions.





    great business idea, chocky ar lar


    ha ha ha


  • #16
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,520 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    maudgonner wrote: »
    Joe Duffy would have been all over this, decrying it as a national scandal...if, that is, he hadn't had his own 1916 book published by a German publisher :D

    Joe Duffy has been all over it already.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/1916-chocolate-bar-2423691-Nov2015/


  • #17
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Rowntree Mackintosh of York are making them

    reminds me of the time Lidl had cheese with a tri-colour covering the entire front, and Irish Cheddar across the top in large lettering... when I checked the back it said 'produced in Essex'


  • #18
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Joe Duffy has been all over it already.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/1916-chocolate-bar-2423691-Nov2015/

    he'd be all over everything - wouldn't like to be the misfortune cleaning that studio



  • #19
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    anyone actually tried them? What they taste like?


  • #20
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    anyone actually tried them? What they taste like?

    Like maidens dancing at the crossroads.


  • #21
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Like maidens dancing at the crossroads.

    Milk maidens, hand maidens?

    The facts man!!! This is important!!!


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  • #22
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Milk maidens, hand maidens?

    The facts man!!! This is important!!!

    Iron Maidens.


  • #23
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Iron Maidens.

    Comely maidens. Very comely.


  • #24
    Kurtosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Kurtosis


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    anyone actually tried them? What they taste like?

    Not good apparently, from the Journal article above:
    ...some people calling it tasteless and inappropriate.


  • #25
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    I dont really get who the target market is here?
    Normal chocolate eaters wont be going to their local corner shop to get a bar of this.


  • #26
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Rowntree Mackintosh of York are making them

    Now known as Nestle of Switzerland.
    Championship Vinyl wrote: »
    I'm sure Michael Collins' head in the shape of an egg will go down well. Especially with tea.

    I have an aunt who would put that on a pedestal and say a decade of the rosary to it most nights.

    donegaLroad wrote: »
    reminds me of the time Lidl had cheese with a tri-colour covering the entire front, and Irish Cheddar across the top in large lettering... when I checked the back it said 'produced in Essex'

    I saw that before on some cheeses. Turns out that it's cut and packaged in the UK, as is all of our ready sliced and grated cheese. Shipped to the UK in huge blocks, cut, packaged, boxed and sent back again.


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